Playing Chess Quotations

Chess is everything: art, science, and sport.

I spend hours playing chess because I find it so much fun. The day it stops being fun is the day I give up.

I have never in my life played the French Defence, which is the dullest of all openings

All I want to do, ever, is play chess.

It was not until I got my first job, at the University of Washington in Seattle, and began playing chess with Don Gordon, a brilliant young theorist, that I learned economic theory.

If I win a tournament, I win it by myself. I do the playing. Nobody helps me

Like dogs who sniff each other when meeting, chess players have a ritual at first acquaintance: they sit down to play speed chess.

I feel like I'm playing chess underwater. The pieces keep floating away. I don't know where things are. I can't figure out tomorrow.

The passion for playing Chess is one of the most unaccountable in the world

Logic is good for playing chess but is often too slow for the needs of survival.

The Kremlin is constantly changing the rules of the game to suit its purposes. We are not playing chess, we're playing roulette.

Playing rapid chess, one can lose the habit of concentrating for several hours in serious chess. That is why, if a player has big aims, he should limit his rapidplay in favour of serious chess.

Ralph... would treat the day's decisions as though he were playing chess. The only trouble was that he would never be a very good chess player.

By playing at Chess then, we may learn: First: Foresight... Second: Circumspection... Third: Caution...And lastly, we learn by Chess the habit of not being discouraged by present bad appearances in the state of our affairs, the habit of hoping for a favorable chance, and that of persevering in the secrets of resources

Chess is so interesting in itself, as not to need the view of gain to induce engaging in it; and thence it is never played for money

By playing at Chess then, we may learn... First: Foresight. Second: Circumspection. Third: Caution.